Improvement in culinary vessels



runners MORANDI, on MALDEN, MAssncnusErTs.

Letters Patent No. 111,369, dated J annary 31, 1871 IMPROVEMENT [m CULINARY vEssELs.

. The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent -and making part of the same.

To all to tvhom these presents may come Be it known that I, FRANCIS MORA NDI,0f-Ma1deh, in the county of Middlcsex and State of Massachu- -setts, have invented anew and useful Cooking-Utensil or Clulinary Apparatus; and do hereby declare the same ,to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which-5 I Figure 1 is a side elevation, and

Figure 2, avertical section of the said device.

. Figure 3 is a top View, with the cover removed, and

F gure 4, atop viewof the shell or case. My invention 'hasreference to the cooking of articles of food by the process called 'frying, and has for its object the remedying of certain defects incident to the mode hetetofore adopted.

'ltlis well known that the common method of frying .any article of food 'is to place the same in an open vessel or spider, provided with a suitable quantity of butter, oil, or fatty matter, over the fire,-and that, while being cooked the peculiar odor of the article,

as well as the volatile portion of the liquid in which it is being fried, not only freely escapes into the room, but any aqueous matter exuding from such article mingling withthe boiling fat, soon generates steam of such expansive force as to throw much of the oil y 1 or' fatty particles out of the pan and spatter the top of the stove, or range, or other articles in immediate proximity thereto, whereby not only a large percentage of the frying liquid is lost, but] much labor required to clean the stove of such wasted matter. To obviate these evils is the design of my improvement. The said apparatus is intended to be used in one of the boiler openings in the top. plate of a stove or range;

In the said drawing" A denotes'a cylindrical'case orvesscl, which is open at top and bottom, and is provided with a cover, B,

and a handle, 0.

The bottom D has an annular hole,'E, made through it, a circular flange, F, extending downward therefrom, the same being to fit into a boiler-opening of a stove or range.

.G G, 860., are a series of horizontal ribs or projections, which are disposed on the bottom of the case.

H H is another series of vertical ribs, which are aflixcd to the inner surface of the case, the said ribs being formed and arranged-as seen in fig..4.

- I- is a spider, which is disposed within the said case,

and rests upon the ribs G G, 8m, and is maintained in its proper position therein bythe vertical guides or ribs H H, 850., the said spider being provided with ahandle, J, which fits into a notch made in the .top of the case, as seen in fig. 3

- The object ofthe two series-of projections or ribs- I is'n'ot only to centralize and support the spider in its proper position over the fire, but to form and maintain a flue around the entire surface thereof, by which the spider may not only be equally heated, but the smoke and odors (from the article being cooked be conveyed into the escape-flue of the stove or range to which such device may be'applied. I

To facilitatethe discharge of thev smoke and aid in theicom'bustion of the'gaseous products of the fuel,-

the cover'may be provided with a series oi air-inlets I or a series of holes may beIdispo'sed around the upper ,sur face of the'case A.'

1 From the above it will be secuthat, by the construction of my improvedfrying apparatus, none. of the fat or frying liquid can spatter out of the case A, and therefore but little of it is 10st,.for the greater portion of that sputtering from the spidermust necessarily strike upon the cover, and therefore will be-deflected back into the spider or fipon the article within the same.

-I claim as my invention-,-

The above-described cooking-utensil or apparatus, the same consisting of the case A, provided with a perforated bottom, D, a cover, B, a series of horizontal-ribs,- G, or horizontal and vertical ribs .G H, and a spider or vessel, I, the whole being constructed, com-' bined, and arranged together in manner and-so as to operate as set forth.

v FRANCIS MORANDI.

Witnesses F. P. 'HALE, F. O. HALE. 

